Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… whom he accused of forgetting his Whig principles, and himself wrote against the government in a new periodical, The Plebeian , which was politically biting. In retaliation, the government removed him from his management of Drury Lane … exclusive. He was the voice of a bourgeois, or aspiring bourgeois, a world that (despite the title of his periodical The Plebeian which was primarily a signal of defiance against the controversial Peerage Bill which he saw as endangering the …
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